On Sunday, 98/11/29, IVAN TODOROSKI wrote to MARIO SEMO about "Guess who's
back... ;)" as follows:

[snip]
IT>      cli
IT>      x:
IT>      jmp x
IT> 
IT>     Execute this in a DOS window.
IT> 
IT>     Hope you closed all the applications first... ;)

It just means you have a duff machine. Those of us who have EISA or MCA
motherboards have the watchdog timer in the bus control chipset to deal with
excessively long disabling of interrupts. The VDM will trap with an NMI and
order will be restored _on_a_decent_machine.

Regards

Dave


 * KWQ/2 1.2i * Why don't blind people bungee jump?  It terrifies the dog.

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